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$2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 19,1921. Established in 1891
Carlisle Claims C
as Result oj
By reason of its victory at Rhoadi
park Tuesday over Wofford Fitting
school, of Spartanburg, Carlisle
school claims the prep championship j
of South Carolina base ball for 1921.:
"The Fighters" came down from!
Spartanburg very chesty, with an al
most unbroken string of victories to
their credit and tooted to be world
beaters.
But in the very first inning the visitnvc
.arrmnpri their candv. They fail
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ed to reach first for several innings
and Carlisle got the jump on them.
The final score was 7 to 2. The home
lads should have tallied enough runs
in the first round to win, but poor
base running held them to two counters
in this frame. However, the entire
club displayed a complete reversal
of form from the rather mediocre
specimen shown in the last three |
previous games, ahd were never out;
of the lead Tuesday. They played an!
errorless game, and batted well, especially
Warren, Prosser and Large.
The local cadets started out with a
rush and blood in their eyes. They
had the pep, and played as if their
lives rather than just the state championship
rested on the game. James
Sanders, the vNery first man up. took j
the starch out of the visitors when he
hit a clean three-bagger over right
center. A moment later he scored
TRI-COUXTY SUMMER SCHOOL.
Session To Open in Orangeburg June
6th With Capable Instructors.
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Beginning June 6th and running!
until July loth the annual summer!
school of Bamberg-Barnwell-Orange-j
burg counties will be held in tliej
Orangeburg high school building with!
the following instructors:
A. J. Thackston, superintendent of:
the Orangeburg city schools, educa-j
tion and supervision.
-T D Robinson, superintendent of,
the Barnwell city schools, algebra
and arithmetic.
E. P. Allen, superintendent of the
Bamberg city schools, geography and
civics.
Miss Ruth Creighton, English department
of the Orangeburg high
school, English grammar and literature.
Miss Louise Welhorne, state normal
teacher, methods and demonstration
class.
This summer school was organized
several years ago, in order that the
teachers of lower South Carolina
might meet the urgent needs and
added responsibilities of the rural
schools. The county boards of Bamberg,
Barnwell, and Orangeburg
counties realizing these needs organized
the summer school known as
the Bamberg-Barnwell-Orangeburg
summer school for teachers. This
school has already been in session
for several six-week sessions and has
done much toward increasing the effiiency
of the rural schools of these
and adjacent counties by giving just
such courses as better equip teachers
for these schools.
The summer school will be largely
a continuation of the work of the j
State Teacher-Training department j
of the Orangeburg high school, and j
will be under the direction of tne!
county boards of education of counties
supporting the school. The work
to be done by the summer school has
been planned to meet the needs of
the teachers who secured their certifi^
tates by examination and not by
diploma; for those who are preparing
to take the teacher's examination,
and for those teachers who have had
no normal training. The work done
will be elemental, the kind to meet
the needs of the grade and rural
teacher. The text books used will be
those used in the elementary schools.
Full certificate credit will be given
toward renewal of teachers' certificates.
The following letter from
State Superintendent of Education J.
E. Swearingen, will explain:
"The continuance of the Bamberg-Barnwell-Orangeburg
summer :
school is most desirable. The ses-j
sion ought to be six weeks, requiring i
thirty days attendance. Credit will j
be given to only those teachers who |
do at least twenty days' work, taking j
examination and ni*aking a passing i
grade. Teachers holding licenses |
subject to renewal will be allowed an j
extension by one year upon such li- j
census LUX IIIC UUiill'ltH iUiX L'L HI XtX.lSl ;
three courses."
Xo tuition is charged for any of;
these courses and board can be se-:
cured at a very reasonable price. Let j
the teachers write to Miss Louise Wel-j
borne, of Orangeburg. S. C., concern-!
ins: board and courses. I
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hampionship
r Victory Tuesday
on a passed ball and from then on
it was all over but the shouting and
church was out for the fighters.
Warren, along with the gilt edge
support accorded him by his team
mates, also pitched a splendid game.
Only two clean hits were garnered
from his delivery and two scratches.
"Old Hard Luck" was as usual there
with the stick too, and fattened his
batting average with three safeties.
Dantzler /piayea nis usuai jam-up
game at third and Ambrose pulled
down some nice catches in right field.
Wofford's third sacker electrified the
crowd with a sensational stop and
bagged his man at first. Carlisle put
the game on ice in the 2nd when three
more runs were scored, and sewed it
up with two more later in the game.
Murph, pitching for Wofford, appeared
to have pretty good stuff on
the ball and with tighter fielding
behind him would have showed to
far better advantage. He deserved
a closer game.
' This was probably the last game
of the season for Carlisle. The
crowd was the best yet. but the showing
of the Wofford team was somewhat
disappointing.
Wofford .... 2 4 5
Carlisle 7- 12 0
Batteries: Murph and Gault; Warren
and Thompson.
ORGANIZE BALL TEAM.
Will Join League on Condition No
Players Must Be Hired.
A meeting of a number of base ball
players and fans of the town was held
Tuesday afternoon at LaVictoire
theatre for the purpose of organizing
a local team to play this summer.
An organization was effected, and J.
M. Kinard was elected manager, and
Mr. Kinard has accepted the position.
It was decided to send delegates to
the base ball meeting in Barnwell
yesterday, with instructions to join
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the proposed league proviueu cm
agreement was entered into that no
outside players are to be hired by any
team. If this agreement is not entered
into, the local club will play independent
ball during the summer
months.
A good sum was raised among
those present for the support of the
team, and it is contemplated that
playing will begin in abo'ut two
weeks. C. W. Retnz, Jr., and J. M.
Bamberg were sent to Barnwell to
represent the local team at the meeting,
the outcome of which is not
known at this writing.
$75,000 FIRE AT ALLENDALE.
Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Company
Suffered Loss in Fire.
Allendale, May 16.?Fire of an unknown
origin here last night destroyed
cotton and fertilizer material in
the plant of the Allendale Cotton Oil
and Fertilizer Company amounting to
about $75,000. At daylight this morning
the flames were under control and
the larger part of the mill property
had been saved from the flames by
the local volunteer fire department.
Their efforts were aided by a heavy
rain fall, which prevented the spreading
of the flames.
The flames were discovered about
three o'clock Monday morning by the
night watchman. He experienced some
difficulty in arousing aid and it is
said it was an hour before the work
on the checking of the flames had begun.
The increased pressure on the water
resulted in the bursting of several of
the fire department's hose. Had it
not been for a heavy rain fall, the
flames would have had far more
reaching effects. The large brick and
crushing plant operated by the Alendale
Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Company
adjoining the burned property
was saved almost miraculously from
destruction by the flames.
A branch of the state warehouse
system was operated in connection j
with the fertilizer plant and contain-1
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tJU rtUUllt OW UCUU.I H il uo .Jl >.?. i.v^v?. . |
morning, all of which was completely j
destroyed.
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Owner of small sheet?"Mv adveri
tising man was sick yesterday and. \
my wife undertook to fill his place
temporarily."
Friend?"What success did she "
have?"
Owner?-"'Well she solicited millinery
and dressmaking ads mainly
and agreed to take the cost up in
trade."?Exchange. I
DORSEY IS SCORED
BY GEORGIA PEOPLE
FOR PUBLICATION OF BOOKLET
REGARDING NEGRO.
"SLANDER ON THE STATE."
President of Senate, Superior Court
Judges and Others Hay
Executive.
Atlanta, May 15.?Publication of
the booklet, "The Negro in Georgia,"
by Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, charging
135 cases of mistreatment of negroes,
was assailed in three statements
published here today by prominent
men of the state. Advices received
from Macon were to the effect
that a mass meeting had been called
for next Sunday to take steps toward
impeaching the governor. J. Gordon
Jones, mayor of Cordele, Ga., was announced
as one of the speakers.
The replies were in the form of
public statements issued by Sam L.
Olive, president of the state senate
and ranking state official next to the
governor, and by Judge E. R. Searcy,
of the Flint circuit superior court,
and an address at McDonough by
Thomas W. Hardwick, former United
States senator, and governor-elect.
Slander on the StaTe.
Mr. Hjardwick, who declared he
would issue a detailed reply as soon as
he takes office in June made a general
answer to the charge contained in
the booklet, branding them as untrue
and as a "slander on the state "
Judge Searcy went into charges that
Ed. White, a negro of Union county,
had been sent to the chain gang on
trumped up charges. He said the
court proved the negro's guilt and
added that no negro ever has been
lynched in Upson county.
"Such attitude on the part oF your
investigator and yo 1, as governor,
beggar contempt," Judge Starcv said.
Mr. Olive denounce;! the charges in
general and, taking up a. case, that of
a negro burned at *he stake, declared
it referred to a happening in Oglethrope
county. Mr. 01iv3 declared the
governor's booklet referred to the negro
as "a negro suspected ot the murder
of a white woman.'1 and then
proceeded to describe what he saiu
were the facts. The negro, he declared,
attempted to attack the wife of a
young farmer, and failing, murdered
her with a hoe. Negroes and whites
joined in the search and negroes aided
in applying the tcrch, Mr. Oiive
added. There was ample evidence
of the negro's guilt :n addition to his
confession, he declared.
Engagement Announced.
Mrs. Alexander Sallev Easterling
announces the engagement of her
niece, v Pearle Counts, to Joseph
Fletcher Lane, of Sanford, N. C., the
wedding to take place the latter part
of June.
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What was characterized as one of
the strongest discourses on Christian
education ever heard in Bamberg was
delivered Sunday morning at Trinity
Methodist church by the Rev. W. J.
Snyder, associate headmaster of Carlisle
school. Rev. Mr. Snyder has
been designated as one of the speakers
in putting the educational drive
of the Southern Methodist church
across, and Sunday morning he made
his first appeal to the people of Bamberg.
Mr. Snyder took for his text the
third verse of the eleventh Psalm:
"If the foundations be destroyed,
what can the righteous do?" He
said the first thing people who are
interested in the drive must do is to
get it out of their systems that there
will have to be sacrifice to give. The
Methodists of Bamberg are apncr
tioned 514,000: tiiere is a nomwership
here of 4.">0. T3v leaving off a
possible fifty who may not participate
in the campaign, the remaining 400
will only have to contribute an average
of two cents a clay each to make
up the apportionment. God must be
considered in the matter, he said,
and with His divine help the campaign
can he successfully put over
with ease. The person of wealth and
the poorer one will be called on io
give only what God requires that he
or she should give.
The speaker related the awful con%
I COMPTROLLER FIXES
THE 1921 TAX LEVY
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RATES TO BE 11.5 MILLS AND
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ONE-HALF MILL FOR CITADEL.
OVER SIX MILLION XEEDEf>.
| Maximum Rates Will Not Produce
Amount Necessary, Says
Duncan.
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Columbia, May 14.?The tax levy
: for 1921 as determined by Walter E.
j Duncan, comptroller general, and announced
this afternoon, is 11.5
| mills, to which is added the one-half
! mill for the Citadel, the military col
! lege of South Carolina, provided in
I the acts of 1920, making a total for
state purposes of twelve mills, the
! same as the levy for 1920. The gen,
er l appropriation provided a twelve
j mill levy and an additional levy of a
! half mill for the Citadel. The Compj
troller General reduced the levy a
j half mill. The Comptroller General
! in detemining the levy for the curi
rent year, has found it necessary to
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| fix this as the minimum as provided
i in the general appropriation bill and
gives the following figures as the baI
sis of his calculation:
j
Total amount approved for 1921,
| $6,534,925.82, less revenue from
j sources other than taxes 1921 Cestimated
), $1,035,000. Amount to be
! raised by taxation, $5,499,925.82.
; Total taxable property 1920, $44 8,1222,786.
Estimated increase over
| 1920, $30,000,0*00. Total taxable
I property 1921, $478,222,785. Levy
I of eleven an<? one-half mills amount
j to be raised, $5,499,562.03.
"As will be seen by these figures,"
i said Mr. Duncan, "even the maximum
i levy will fall short by a fow dollars
! of producing the total amount it will
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: be necessary to raise by taxation, as|
suming fhat the revenues from sourcI
es and increases in taxable property
j for the present year will be as large
! as I have estimated."
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Mrs. Mary Ray Hutto.
Blackville, May 13.?Mrs. Mary
! Ray Hutto, wife of Thomas Asbury
j Hutto, died very suddenly Wednesday
night. Mrs. Hutto was a lovable
woman and endeared herself to all
1 whom she came in contact with. She
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was 67 years of age, a consistent
member of the Methodist church and
was regarded with the respect and
honor accorded to women of piety.
The funeral and intermen- t.ok place
at the Blackvilte cemetery today at
12:30 o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Glennan
conducting the services.
Mrs. Hutto is survived by her hus?
band and six children: Mrs. J. M.
Halford, Misses Rosa Hutto, Kachael
Hutto, of Blackvilte, Mrs. m\vV H.
Walker, of Beech 'sland, W. B. Hutto,
of Charleston, and David A Hue to, of
Hildebrand, N. C.
zr Speaks
zational Campaign
; dition of the foreign countries; how
they had once been prosperous, culj
tured, educated, and how the leaders
and educators had forgot God. He
told of the condition of France, Germany
and England as they are today,
and' pictured to the audience
| what the destiny of our own country
: will be if the Christian people do not
| soon wake up to the real conditions.
Statistics show that even now there
are 20,000 students in northern colleges
who do not acknowledge God.
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' mgnty-nve per ceui. ui mc
| professors of the country are not
| Christians.
I He demonstrated how the respon'
sibility rests on the Christian schools
to keep our community, state, and
' nation free from sovietism and ungodliness.
Mr. Snyder told his hearers how
anxious the conference is to enlarge
Carlisle school, as this is the only
Methodist school in this section of
the state. If the quota of $14,000
is raised in Bamberg, the conference
will subscribe $98,000 to the school,
and this will put Carlisle in the junior
college class, a goal that the
friends of the school are contemplating
with much enthusiasm, and this
goal will mean much not only to this
section of our state, but still more
to our town and community, and the
speaker sincerely hoped that the peoI
pie of Bamberg will not allow this
i opportunity to pass.
Columbia-Savanna
Links to hi
Hon. J. C. Kearse, member of the i
county delegation to the general as-;J
sembly, has been advised by the state; (
highway commission that steps have!
been taken by the authorities of Al-Lj
lendale county to let the contract for 1
the building of the link of the Co- }
lumbia-Savannah highway from Bu-jj
Ijjprd's bridge to Fairfax. The matter j
of this road construction has been un- j :
der consideration in Allendale county j 1
for the past several years, but for j 1
one reason and another the work has [ ]
been delayed, but the state highway! ]
commission assures Mr. Kearse that; i
definite arrangements are now being;
made looking to the completion of the ;
work at an early date. <
With the Orangeburg link now un- <
der construction and the Bamberg i
link completed, with the exception of; s
about a half mile through the Edisto: i
swamp, there will soon be a complete;
highway from Columbia to Fairfax. <
The present contemplated work' will ;
not carry the road through Allendale' i
county, but doubtless the remaining 11
portion will be built as soon as prac-!
ticable. j;
It will also be news to the readers, i
of The Herald to learn that bids for i
the construction of Orangeburg's por- ]
tion of the Edisto swamp road were 1
opened in Orangeburg Monday. The <
THE EMPTY GUX AG AIX.
Comes Very Xoar Costing Sank John- 1
son His Life by Pointing It.
Safety slogans have frequently
warned the public that empty guns .1
are dangerous things; sometimes fa- i
tal. An empty pistol came very near <
causing a fatality last Saturday, when I ]
Sank Johnson, a negro, tried to j
"bluff" J-immie Stukes, a man of like <
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color, with an pistol that was after- i
ward found to be empty. Stukes 1
promptly produced the real article <
and sent a bullet through the lung of
his adversary, inflicting a wound that i
is very serious and perhaps fatal. i
It seems that the negroes, who <
farm near Bamberg, were disputing 1
about a saddle, which Johnson was
said to have left out in the rain. The 1
difference seems to have been tempor. <
arily patched between them, and the 'I
men went to dinner. On their re- 1
turn, the quarrel was resumed'or re- ]
newed, and Johnson is said to have !
threatened Stukes, pistol in hand, i
whereupon Stukes shot him one time,
the bullet going through one lung. <
It was not learned until afterward j:
that Johnson's pistol was unloaded, j !
Stukes was arrested and placed in j'
jail awaiting" the outcome -of then
wound he inflicted on Johnson. j <
J. D. Miley. j
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Walterboro, May 13.?J. D. Aliley, |
known as "Little Jim" Miley, died at j
his home near the Litr.le Swamu se."*- j
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lion 01 upper uuhuluu iuuuutt,' xiiuijuing.
He had a stroke of paralysis
ten days ago and died as a result of!
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' this attack, which was the second,!
he having suffered a similar attack a
few years ago from which he partially
recovered. The funeral and;
interment took place at Little Swamp
Methodist church Tuesday. He was!
a member of the Carter's Ford Baptist
church and a member of the
Bamberg Masonic lodge.
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Mr. Miley is survived by his widow j
and the following children: Mrs. H. j
K. Strickland, of Williams, H. D., Q. j.
H., J. K., and F. M. Miley, all of;
whom lived at or near their father's j
home. Mrs. J. A. Padgett, of Walter- ;
boro, was a full sister, and he had the
following half sisters and brothers,
his mother having been twice married:
J. N. Kinsey, W. D. Kinsey, Mrs.
E. W. Strickland, Mrs. J. W. Miley
and Mrs. J. H. Garris.
He was one of the.best known and!
most popular citizens of the county.''
'He was a farmer and business man ,
and was successful in his business!
career.
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Modern Mana.
Manna, still foijnd in upper Meso- '
potamia and Kurdistan and along ,
the Persian frontier, is stated by a j ^
consular report to fall in September, j
October and November as a dew, j
which collects on vegetation. It quickly
hardens into the farm of a grain.
Collectors, working only in the early
morning, shake it into sheets from
the oak trees?but no others?and
store it for winter, when natives eat <
; it as a substitute for sugar or honey, j
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ih Highway
i Completed Soon
road involved measures about on?
^nd one-eighth miles. This is the
causeway on the Orangeburg side of
the river leading up to the proposed
new bridge to be constructed jointly
by the two counties in cooperation
with the government. Among the
bids for the work were proposals
from McMillan and Watson, of Bamherg,
and J. F. Cleckley, of Cope,
neither of whose bids, however, was
the lowest. The lowest bid submitted
was about $13,000. Mr. Cleckley's
was about $17,000, the second
lowest. Other bids ranged upward
to about $25,000.
It is understood that the Bamberg
authorities will proceed at an early
date to award the contract for the
construction of the causeway on this
side of the river, and that.thereafter
as soon as possible the authorities
of the two counties will get together*
with the highway commission for the
erection of a steel or concrete bridge
across the Edisto at a point further
down the river than the present
bridge.
Highway construction in Bamberg
and adjacent counties is proceeding
in a most gratifying manner, and it
is predicted that before many years
have elapsed this entire section will
be connected with a system of mod?rn
highways. ; "
MRS HATTIE M. WIGGINS.
Relict of Late T. L. Wiggins IMed
Suddenly Tuesday Afternoon.
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The many friends of Mrs. Hattie ? .
VI. Wiggins were shocked Tuesday
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afternoon to learn of her sudden
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death at her home on Midway street,
Bamberg. Mrs. Wiggins was in her
garden when she suffered an attack
Df heart trouble. Some passers-by
loticed her struggling to get into her
louse, and gave assistance, but she /
died in a few minutes.
The remains will be carried tomorrow
to Barnwell, where interment
will take place at 11 o'clock
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i. in., uesiae ine grave ui ner ?usDand.
Mrs. Wiggins was the relict of the
late T. L. Wiggins, a former editor
of The Herald, who died suddenly in /
Savannah some fifteen years ago. She
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was 51 years of age, and was a wonan
of estimable Christian character.
She wa? a member of Trinity Meth3dist
church.
Mrs. Wiggins is survived by three
children, Charlie Wiggins, of Savan- >
riah; Willie Wiggins, of Macon, and
Miss Louise Wiggins, of Bamberg.
Two brothers, C. R. Brabham, Sr.,
of this city, and C. H. Brabham, of
Olar, and one sister, Mrs. Julia Brabham,
of Cope, also survive her.
High School Funds Received.
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Last Saturday the state superin-?
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tendent of education mailed out
checks to the various high schools of
the state qualifying for state aid to
the extent of more than $250,000.
The following schools in Bamberg
county received the sums indicated:
Bamberg, $1,490; Denmark, $1,339;
Ehrhardt, $1,881; Olar, $951;
total, $5,661.
Other schools in this section re- *
ceiving state aid were: Allendale,
$1,369; Fairfax, $990; Barnwell,
$1,285; Blackville, $1,228; Williston,
$1,387; St. Matthews, $1,805;
Walterboro, $1,402; St. George, $1,477;
Brunson, $927; Estill, $1,400;
Hampton, $2,119; Orangeburg, v $3,083;
Springfield, $1,339; Norway,
$1,240; North, $1,195; Holly Hill, |
$1,431; Elloree, $1,400; Branchville,
$1,490; Bowman, $800; Wagner, 1,474;
Salley, $800.
Scoreless Tie at Ehrhardt.
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The Ehrhardt ball team and the
Fairfax team battled nine innings
Thursday without either team mak- .
ing a score. It was a pitchers' battle
between Purcell and Preacher.
Preacher, of Fairfax, allowed but one
hit (a little three-bagger), struck
3ut five. Purcell, the home team hurler,
allowed two hits, struck out nine
men and was faced by only twentynine
men during the nine innings.
The feature of the game was a peg
by Copeland from deep right to third
getting the runner. Rain ended the
?ame in the first of the tenth.
Last Resort.
"I hear that Jinks is married."
"Is he. I knew he was deeply in
debt, but I didn't know he was desperate."?New
York Sun.
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